Chevrolet Avalanche

The Chevrolet Avalanche is a four-door, five- or six-passenger full-size pickup truck that was manufactured by General Motors and marketed by its Chevrolet division. The Avalanche was a hybrid between the Chevrolet Suburban SUV and the Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, sharing the chassis with the Suburban. Unlike a typical pickup truck where the bed is mounted separately from the cab on the frame, the bed of the Avalanche was integrated with the cab body. It prominently featured a "midgate" behind the second row of seats that could be folded inward and down, with the seats, to create a longer bed area. The Avalanche was manufactured across two generations starting in 2001 and ending in 2013. Breaking with a long-standing tradition, the Avalanche was available solely as a Chevrolet model without a GMC variant. Instead, Cadillac marketed a re-badged Avalanche. The midgate design would be adapted for use on the GMC Envoy XUV and Hummer H2 SUT.